The growing feud between President Donald Trump and Steve Bannon is threatening Bannon’s relationship and leadership with the conservative Breitbart News website. It is also upending the former White House strategist’s plans to wage “war” on party incumbents he felt were not loyal to the White House agenda. Bannon’s longtime benefactors, billionaires Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer, are currently distancing themselves from him, even before the official release of a book that has caused tension between Trump and Bannon, writes The Wall Street Journal. The Mercers and other Breitbart News Network LLC board members on Thursday were debating whether or not they should kick Bannon out as chairman. Many people supported the move, and staffers at Breitbart called it a “chaotic” day at the company. Trump has publicly said that Bannon has “lost his mind” and that he has “nothing to do with me or my presidency” in response to incendiary comments, such as insults about the Trump family, published in Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, about the first year of the Trump administration.
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